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What were the factors that forced Gorbachev to initiate the reforms in the USSR?



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Mikhail Gorbachev who had become General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985. He was forced to initiate the reforms in the USSR due to the following reasons:

  1. Reforms were necessary to keep the USSR abreast of the information and technological revolutions taking place in the West.
  2. GorbachevтАЩs decision to normalise relations with the West and democratise and reform the Soviet Union had some other effects that neither he nor anyone else intended or anticipated.
  3. To loosen the administrative system which exempted ordinary people from the privileges.
  4. Gorbachev initiated the policies of economic and political reform and democratisation within the country. The reforms were opposed by leaders within the Communist Party.

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